MI-5: Volume 6

The award-winning, edge-of-your-seat spy drama is back with another white-knuckle ride through the perilous world of deadly terrorists, international cover-ups and treacherous double-agents.

Having survived the bombing of the Thames Barrier, Adam and Ros recover to find London facing an even greater threat. While attempting to thwart an attack that could jeopardize a historic peace accord between Britain and Iran, the team unwittingly unleash a deadly killer. But with a virus that mimics the pneumonic plague, there can be no negotiation. And when Zaf is kidnapped by armed mercenaries, the team realizes that in a game of the highest stakes they hold none of the cards. As the stuff of nightmares becomes increasingly real, London faces total devastation...
This exclusive five-disc set contains the complete, original British sixth season of the riveting spy drama. Bonus features include audio commentary, behind the scenes featurette, video diary and more!

Episode 1 - The Grid is faced with the threat of a terrorist attack by a member of Iranian intelligence which could jeopardise an historic peace deal with Iran.
The team is sent undercover in Iran when they receive intelligence that suspected terrorist Mehan Asnik is plotting a bomb attack on London. Their aim is to blow up Asnik in Tehran, making it look like a terrorist attack, but just as the team are about to detonate the charge, a train packed with civilians pulls up yards from the target. With the operation at a critical stage, the team must make a split-second decision that could cost many innocent lives.

Episode 2 - With Britain on the verge of a plague epidemic, the team must track down and quarantine anyone infected. Meanwhile, Harry orders the interrogation of spies from all nations likely to have a vaccine.
With Britain facing a deadly plague, Harry rounds up key spies from nations likely to be involved in the plot, and begins an interrogation that he hopes will lead him to the vaccine. But these are some of the world's most hardened characters and they are going to need a lot of persuading. Ruthless agent Connie James is charged with obtaining the information, and what better weapon to use against her captives than the threat of infecting them with the virus itself?

Episode 3 - A plane crashes near an American airbase. Was it shot down on purpose and, if so, was Iran involved? With the team unaware of her kidnap, Ros is subjected to mental torture.
Zaf is still missing and his colleagues assume the worst, but a plane crash near an American air base shifts attention to the possibility of an Iranian offensive. Malcolm is sent to shoot secret footage of the Americans as they hastily clear the site and remove the wreckage to their base. Meanwhile, Ros refuses to yield as her kidnappers subject her to sustained mental torture.

Episode 4 - When intelligence is received that an Algerian extremist is planning a terrorist attack on London, Adam urges Ana, his contact in the Iranian Embassy, to spy on her husband.
Despite Ros's reservations, Adam is still working Ana, his source at the Iranian embassy. With rumours that Algerian terrorist Abdul Kharami is planning an attack on London, Adam pressures Ana to spy on her husband, the Iranian special consul Dariush Bakhshi, who is suspected of having links to Kharami. Meanwhile, Jo is sent to find out who or what Kharami's target could be.

Episode 5 - Attempting to stop an Iranian nuclear deal on British soil, Adam is framed for the killing of a mugger, who turns out to be a journalist investigating the Tehran train bomb.
On his way to the airport to intercept a Russian arms dealer selling vital nuclear blueprints to Iran, Adam is mugged and fatally strikes back. The ‘mugger' turns out to be a journalist investigating the Tehran train bomb. In return for information locating the Russian dealer, Ros yields to Yalta's demands to bug the Grid. Ana drugs Adam and attempts to drown him in the bath.

Episode 6 - Boarding a flight to Tehran, can Adam and Ros find and stop the passenger carrying nuclear triggers to Iran?
A circuit board capable of triggering Iran's nuclear warheads is being smuggled out of the country on a flight bound for Iran. Going undercover as a steward and a passenger, Ros and Adam make swift, discreet searches of luggage belonging to those most likely to be the courier. Back at headquarters, Harry realises the office must be bugged and authorises a sweep of the Grid.

Episode 7 - The announcement of a new peace accord between Britain, America and Iran is disrupted when armed infiltrators hijack the television broadcast.
A tentative pact between Iran, the USA and the UK has been agreed that could pull the trio back from the brink of conflict. A live television broadcast is arranged to announce the new peace and Ros exerts pressure on Iranian Special Consul Bakhshi to appear, using his wife Ana as leverage. But just as the programme begins, gunmen burst into the studio and demand that transmission be stopped.

Episode 8 - When Ros's involvement with Yalta is uncovered, Harry comes face to face with the chief of the shadowy anti-American organization.
Ros has been found out by Bob Hogan and has no choice but to tell Harry about her association with Yalta. In a bid to redeem herself she offers to get information on Yalta's latest operation against America. This involves getting inside Yalta's HQ and taking Adam with her, but Yalta already suspects Ros's cover has been blown and, taking her hostage, demands she reveals Harry's whereabouts.

Episode 9 - The team race against time to find and deactivate a bomb planted in central London by an ex-IRA operative, and discover who is really behind the plot to kill them.
Having been humbled by Yalta's attack on their satellite network, the USA is planning air-strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. Meanwhile, the team is suspended from the Grid following the Ros Myers affair, and, when utterly impotent and isolated, an old adversary of Harry's appears out of the woodwork to inform them of a bomb he has planted in central London. Either innocent civilians or the team itself will perish. But who is really behind the threat?

Episode 10 - The team learns the fate of Zaf, and Adam's focus on preventing an al-Qaeda attack on a London school is diverted when Jo is kidnapped by a group of mercenaries.
The Venezuelan President is being targeted by a CIA hitman, Annibal Rodriguez, and the Venezuelan secret police are offering intelligence on a planned al-Qaeda attack on a British school if MI5 intervene. Meanwhile, Jo is kidnapped by a group called the Red-backs who torture and kill spies. Adam asks Bob Hogan to help with her rescue but when Adam is also taken prisoner, he makes a shocking discovery about the CIA man.

Series Created by David Wolstencroft
Executive Produced by Simon Crawford Collins, Jane Featherstone
Produced by Katie Swinden
Directed by Omar Madha (1 & 2), Charles Beeson (3 & 4) , Brendan Maher (5 & 6) , Stefan Schwartz (7 & 8) , Alrick Riley (9 & 10)
Written by Neil Cross (1, 2, 8 & 9), Rupert Walters (3), David Farr (4 & 7), Zinnie Harris (5) ,George Tiffin (6), Ben Richards (10)

Rupert Penry-Jones (Adam Carter)
Adam just about made it to the end of the last series intact – any more near misses this series?
He catches bubonic plague, he nearly drowns, he goes through about four near death experiences and has a very complicated love life this year. Which is pretty much how it is every year for Adam!

There’s quite a few stunts for you this series – do you do all of them yourself and do you ever get hurt?
I do most of my own stunts, although there’s a couple they won’t let me do. There are some great ones this series – car chases, street fights and a really dramatic fight in the passenger cabin of a plane. There was one bit of scaling the outside of a house, which they decided wasn’t safe for me to do. The team are very good about making the stunts look realistic and dangerous without actually putting me in harm’s way!

How has Adam’s relationship with Ros developed?
Well, without giving too much away, their relationship has definitely moved on, as you’ll see in the first scene of episode one! Because of the job they do they find it very hard to trust each other, which would make a romantic relationship very tricky. Plus, Adam’s having an affair with an asset which complicates things with Ros as well…

Which is your favourite episode in this new series?
I think episode eight is my favourite. There are just some lovely moments in there between Adam and Ros as all the deceit and tension from the whole series come to a head.

Spooks takes the form of a serial this year, and as usual is pretty topical with regards to world affairs – do you have concerns about dramatising these sensitive issues?
No, it’s never gratuitous, they are issues that people are interested in; what’s going on in the world today. I mean, of course it’s fiction, but you do feel like you get an insight into what really could be happening.

"There's enough grounding in real world affairs to give Spooks a kind of plausibility. But there's no holding back on the action, either. It's like John le Carré on speed. And it's fabulous fun."  - Sam Wollaston, Guardian

"Spooks is over the top, unrealistic and more absurd than Amy Winehouse's beehive... but brilliant. The production is as slick as Brendan Cole's chat-up lines and for anyone looking for an hour's escapism, it's perfect. Back for a new series and despite more cast changes over the years than Jordan's had boob jobs, it has lost none of its appeal. It is totally unbelievable, but action-packed ... Telly doesn't have to be rooted in reality ... Spooks doesn't take itself too seriously and neither should we."  - Jon Wise, People

"The opening episode of season six has all the right ingredients: a surprise romantic development, chemical weapons, an undercover operation to assassinate an Iranian terrorist on his home turf and a home secretary who makes the spooks look like the Red Cross."  - Sunday Times

"...enjoyable hokum. It is topical and exciting, performed without irony and filled with technological wizardry ... These guys are dedicated, attractive and armed to the teeth with Apple Macs."  - David Chater, The Times

"Hurray! The sleek spy show is back ... as breathless and glossy as ever."  - London Evening Standard

"...absorbing..."  - Observer

"The slick post-9/11 espionage drama returns with a fresh run of high-tension skulduggery."  - Independent

"Our best home-grown espionage thriller."  - Mail on Sunday

"A train, a traitor, a bomb, a bioweapon, a magnetic pulse, proud Americans, a woman called Miriam and a new haircut for Jo ignite a thrilling 10-episode story arc."  - Guardian

"The opening episode of this tightly-written and fast-paced show is as nail-biting as you would come to expect."  - Daily Express

"Don't know about you, but we're gripped."  - Sunday Mirror

"We just can't get enough of those super-sharp spies ... This is the sixth series of the spy drama - but it seems like only yesterday Lisa Faulkner got deep fat-fried."  - Tim Teeman, The Times

"...fascinating as well as gripping..."  - Critics' Choice, Sunday Times

"Peter Firth, who has been holding the whole show together as Harry, the only remaining original character, is still wonderfully acerbic ... the unlikely plot starts to suck you in and there's a great cliffhanger."  - Andrea Mullaney, Scotsman

"Spooks powers along in fine style."  - David Stephenson, Sunday Express

"Spooks is back - as slick, glossy and ridiculous as ever."  - Garry Bushell, Daily Star

"The finest British thriller series in years."  - Heat

"Rarely has a British drama series shown such spirit and zeal in its sixth series as Spooks has. (Rarely, in fact, does a British drama of such a calibre even reach a sixth series.) Sure, the plots are full of holes and the characters sometimes not much more than sketchy, but the exploits of Adam et al are done with such confidence that they are irresistible. And as the serial centred on British-US-Iranian relations comes to an end, there's no respite from the high stakes or the high-octane thrills."  - Gareth McLean, Guardian